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Very hot way to label your brand. I couldn’t come up with anything so stuck with the trusty last name! My business is "Koontz Photography & Design" how boring![/quote:3kklozb6]
Negative Koontz?
Koontz Dark Roomtz?
Mine has to do with my photography. I was looking for name for my website/company/branding for when i start trying to sell my work.
Scotopic Lux is an effect that occurs when seeing in the dark, when things are only seen in black and white in low light.
From Wikipedia:
"Scotopic vision is the monochromatic vision of the eye in low light. Since cone cells are nonfunctional in low light, scotopic vision is produced exclusively through rod cells so therefore there is no color perception.In scientific literature, one occasionally encounters the term scotopic lux which corresponds to photopic lux, but uses instead the scotopic visibility weighting function."[/quote:2jr7gg9m]
Not to get all scientific here, but if there is low light (even like, barely), there is still light entering the eye. What makes the cone cells decide to just shut off? This just interests me. I wonder what the illumination limit is….
Also, squids, moreover, giant squids, have the most complex eye comparable to humans. And it’s large as fuck. But these guys swim 1,000s of feet bmsl, so they would have no use for such a complex eye, as there is absolutely no light at that depth. Why the big eyes?
My honest to god thoughts on this?
Humans are inherently afraid of the unknown. So, as ALWAYS, we come up with stories to help us cope with these fears.
China, with a very long lifespan, used dragons to symbolize the unknown. Somewhere in Europe, people made up vampires. Then werewolves. In the deep seas, it was giant octopus and squid. And mermaids. It always seems to correspond to the fears of the times.
Once technology advanced to an understanding, yet fear of space, we invented martians and ufos. It’s part of what makes us human. I’m not doing a very scholastic job here, but if you follow the progression of mankind from hunter/gatherer, to herders/nomads, to farming/agriculture, to civilized societies/cities, there is always the unknown. As our understanding progresses, the fears expand, but are just as unfounded.
We, as humans, simply cannot accept that there is so much we do not know, and that we may never know. This scares us, so we rationalize our fear with irrational explanations or urban myths, to give some sort of credence to explain away what we cannot comprehend.
Interestingly enough, religion, through the progression of mankind, follows a similar, evolving path.
I wrote this in college, about starting to drink and smoke: If only I listened to myself.
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I’m walking down this carnival highway. You know, the empty, sticky, flashy, jet-engine aisle…the dirty path traveled by the millions. At first, I am mute. Energy of all wavelengths passes through me, reaching me via distinguished media…vibrations, noises, headlights, flames of yellow and red, beckoning my submission. I am silent. For I have heard of the evil. The fake. The hypocrite. The sinner. Smiling with glittered teeth and eyes of molten steel, he flies to me. With clawed hands open and bat wings spread. I am offered to taste his nectar. The life juice of darkness. And as the quiet moon pulsates onto my head, I take my virgin sip of nothingness. It goes down like a snake crawling into my stomach, it’s body opening and slithering and becoming one with my soul. And now, removal of the beast would surely mean death…for it is a part of me. It is me. And I look behind to see where to go and the heat blasts burn my eyes. The silver lenses see far above, but the blackness comes rushing down. Down, down, down. Crushing and extinguishing the sought after and needed, until the horizontals dominate. A vacuum begins from inside and when I look forward, my snake is just leaving. On to pursue another being. To eat what is his and control what was once mine.
that’s just one judge! you could steal the prize at the end! start kicking your horse in the butt now!
i love big ass breakfasts. i always go to shoney’s or ryan’s (buffet places), as i’m too lazy to make all the selections on my own.
maybe i’ll take the family out tonight for a buffet dinner. arthur and i are celebrating something.
I agree Reggae. I feel the same way about my own job. A lot of the times, when the pressure of having to do it vs. wanting to do it is alleviated, I actually enjoy it, like, 10-fold more.
I always just saw it as a collective, \"we’re done\". D’Arcy was already gone. Jimmy had just returned. Seems like things were being forced during Machina.
I always saw James as the most stable of the band. He did a solo project, then came right back. D’Arcy was kicked out or left (I can’t remember), Jimmy was in and out, and Billy was in the middle of all of it. Granted, he was the leader, so he kinda put himself there, in those shoes.
I just see it as everyone looked around and said we need a break. Forever? Maybe. I mean, they recorded Machina knowing the break up was coming afterwards. So everyone in the band knew it was kinda over at that point. Does that make sense?
looks like i’ll be home on november 6th. wonder if it’s playing in knoxville.[/quote:5lg7mv2r]
home? where are you now?? I thought you were at home[/quote:5lg7mv2r]i’m always coming and going!
i live in knoxville, but work out of town a lot. i *should* be here the 9th. i think? lol, not really sure.
Soooooooo
American Gothic. This show is right up that alley. I wonder if the Pumpkins sought out this award show, or if the award show sought out them.
Hmmmm
lit a cigarette huh? well my drinking days are grinding to a halt, and hopefully, smoking as well. it’s been 1.5 days w/o a smoke. 72 hours and it’s all psychological after that.
Yeah, the crowd didn’t seem to into it. As soon as Pumpkins done, they just moved right over to Samuel L. Jackson. Kinda of a strange segue, would have almost prefered a commercial in there or something.
I think Friday will be better.
It’s on. Very strange show. It’s cool though, I guess, just not into this sort of crap. Hopefully Pumpkins will be cool.
im gonna see the pumpkins friday night at the kimmel show.[/quote:1hdlzyfv]
like, in person? you lucky butt!
[/quote:1hdlzyfv]they’re going to play the stage outside and im gonna be in the audience. i’ll prob stick around after and try to get an autograph[/quote:1hdlzyfv]
Wear a ridiculous hat so we can all find you in the crowd!
